Power UsageI have undervolted the ATi 5770 to 1.000v (and took 50mhz off the clock to make it stable) which cut around 20w off the consumption in games taking it down to 110w (average across all the games I have tested it with). I must say that I enjoy playing games like BF3 and Crysis on High settings while consuming less than 120w.

- what would you say is the most noisiest component?Easily the PSU. I have in the past controlled PSU fans with a mod, but have not yet gotten round to doing that with this one.

- how noisy is the PSU? the GPU?The PSU is quiet, and the GPU is currently silent at idle and very quiet under load. I run the GPU at 0% until it reaches 60c and 20% after that, there must be a fail safe as it cannot completely stop, it just spins very slowly.

- what CPU cooler do you use?Xigmatek Loki with Xigmatek 90mm fan which is running 35% (not sure of the RPM as the mobo cant detect below 800rpm.

- why is the fan on the left side of the CPU heatsink?I have it set sucking the air through the heatsink, I have found it to be just as effective that way, and putting it to the left of the heatsink allows better airflow for the 220mm fan to the motherboard.

- where is the hard disk placed?The ssd and 2.5" HDD are suspended in the optical drive bay at the top, this build uses an external USB DVD drive.

The 220mm case fan is also running at 35% off the same 3-pin as the CPU fan (splitter is used) and all fans except for the PSU are controlled by Speedfan.

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